Happy Equinox,
Are you ready to tuck into the cozy half of the year?
This Fire Horse year has been at a full gallop. I find moments to half halt and regain my balance, but I’m pleased with what all this momentum has created, both within and without.
Amidst all that movement, I’ve been sitting with deeper questions around what I’m creating and why.
Perception has been on my mind. Not simply what we see, but how we see. What happens when something familiar is placed in a different context? What becomes conscious when we learn to pay attention to subtler signals?
This question has been taking form in the studio.
Attuning is the first work in a new series, The Wild Within.
The mule deer skull belongs to the visual language of the West. The halo, borrowed from religious iconography, shifts it away from specimen or trophy and toward something more contemplative.
Somewhere in the making, it shifted from object to presence.
Attuning began with an inquiry into sensitivity, not as fragility, but as a form of intelligence. I’m especially interested in the signals we receive through the body, and in the body itself as a way of knowing.
Subtle signals become strength. Sensing deepens into knowing.
The original vision was a cast-glass skull with bronze antlers and halo. The exhibition schedule required another solution, and the first Attuning emerged entirely in bronze while the glass work continued.
Number 1/35 in the glass edition has already found a collector. The cast-glass Attuning will make its public debut at the Sigler Museum show Cowgirl Up! in Arizona, March 2027.
Bronze holds. Glass transmits.
Changing the material, the context, or simply the quality of our attention can change what we are able to see.
